Legitimists

The Legitimists were royalists in France who supported the elder line of the House of Bourbon, as opposed to the Orleanists, who supported the July Monarchy of 1830-1848. The Legitimists ruled France from the restoration of King Louis XVIII of France in 1814 until the July Revolution of 1830, when the Orleanists rose to power and established a constitutional monarchy in the place of the Bourbon absolute monarchy. The Legitimist faction would die with Henri, Count of Chambord, the last Bourbon prince, in 1883.